Robert Bresson Quotes About Eyes

Quotes about: Eyes

• The ear is profound, whereas the eye is frivolous, too easily satisfied. The ear is active, imaginative, whereas the eye is passive. When you hear a noise at night, instantly you imagine its cause. The sound of a train whistle conjures up the whole station. The eye can perceive only what is presented to it.

  Robert Bresson

  Eye, Night, Profound

• When a sound can replace an image, cut the image or neutralize it. The ear goes more towards the within, the eye towards the outer.

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  Eye, Cutting, Sound

  Robert Bresson (2016). “Notes on the Cinematograph”, p.29, New York Review of Books

• The eye solicited alone makes the ear impatient, the ear solicited alone makes the eye impatient. Use these impatiences. Power of the cinematographer who appeals to the two senses in a governable way. Against the tactics of speed, of noise, set tactics of slowness, of silence.

  Robert Bresson

  Eye, Two, Silence

  Robert Bresson (2016). “Notes on the Cinematograph”, p.30, New York Review of Books

• Model. Two mobile eyes in a mobile head, itself on a mobile body.

  Robert Bresson

  Eye, Two, Body

  Robert Bresson (2016). “Notes on the Cinematograph”, p.19, New York Review of Books

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